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DESCRIPTION:Join us this fall for the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewi
 sh Material Culture. Gabrielle A. Berlinger (University of North Carolina)
  will deliver a three-part lecture series entitled “The Buildings that Rem
 ain: Finding Purpose in Place through Collective Preservation.” October 16
 \, Lecture 1: 770: A Constellation of Sacred SitesNovember 13\, Lecture 2:
  Elsewhere: Archive\, Museum\, and Catalyst of ChangeDecember 11\, Lecture
  3: Buttenhausen: The Material Afterlife of a German Jewish CommunityThe B
 uildings that Remain: Finding Purpose in Place through Collective Preserva
 tionThis series explores how three ordinary buildings have been transforme
 d into extraordinary spaces for religious\, social\, and historic Jewish p
 urpose: a medical clinic in Brooklyn\, New York\, a second-hand store in G
 reensboro\, North Carolina\, and a schoolhouse in southern Germany. Althou
 gh geographically\, temporally\, and culturally distinct from one another\
 , all three sites engage with Jewish memory\, values\, and practice throug
 h creative approaches to the preservation of these buildings and their mat
 erial contents. Using strategies of reconstruction\, restoration\, and eve
 n deconstruction of these buildings and the objects within\, the people wh
 o steward these sites nurture deep and dynamic relationships between peopl
 e\, objects\, and a sense of belonging in each environment. Lecture 1: 770
 : A Constellation of Sacred Sites770 Eastern Parkway is the worldwide head
 quarters of the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic community based in Crown Heights\
 , Brooklyn. Since Rebbe Menachem Schneerson\, the seventh and last leader 
 of the Lubavitch community\, passed away in 1994\, reconstructions of the 
 gothic-style brick building where he was based have proliferated around th
 e world. In addition\, rooms within the original building\, and their mate
 rial contents\, have been preserved in distinctive ways for use by members
  of the community’s growing global movement. In this first lecture\, Gabri
 elle Berlinger examines this network of sacred spaces that enable Lubavitc
 her Jews around the world to remain connected to the Rebbe and his teachin
 gs in his absence. Bard Graduate Center is grateful for the generous suppo
 rt of the Leon Levy Foundation.Gabrielle A. Berlinger is associate profess
 or of American studies and folklore and Babette S. and Bernard J. Tanenbau
 m Scholar in Jewish History and Culture at the University of North Carolin
 a at Chapel Hill (UNC). As a folklorist and ethnologist\, she studies the 
 nature and significance of vernacular architecture and ritual practice\, p
 articularly in contemporary Jewish communities. Her article\, “From Ritual
  to Protest: Sukkot in the Garden of Hope” in Buildings & Landscapes: Jour
 nal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum (University of Minnesota Press\, 
 2017)\, received the 2019 Catherine Bishir Prize from the Vernacular Archi
 tecture Forum and is drawn from fieldwork for her book\, Framing Sukkot: T
 radition and Transformation in Jewish Vernacular Architecture (Indiana Uni
 versity Press\, 2017). She is also coeditor of The Lives of Jewish Things:
  Collecting and Curating Material Culture (Wayne State University Press\, 
 2024). Before joining the faculty at UNC\, Gabrielle was an Andrew W. Mell
 on Postdoctoral Fellow in the “Cultures of Conservation” initiative at Bar
 d Graduate Center in New York City. There\, her research and teaching cent
 ered on an ethnographic project at the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in 
 which she documented the preservation process of the museum’s nineteenth-c
 entury tenement apartment building—a study that related issues of historic
  preservation\, immigrant social history\, heritage management\, and museu
 m practice in the reconciliation of physical and cultural conservation nee
 ds.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: 770: A Constellation of Sacred Sites
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